your favorite little computer program hoonja-doonja (mac version)

e.g. doesn't try to install it's own gcc, python, tex, perl, etc. when you install some little utility

development of new recipes is a bit more straightforward too, which may not bother you directly, but it means that the community is much more active, there are more packages, and the system is generally more robust

huh, cool

quickcursor: oh neat

Only 5 years late, but http://www.ambrosiasw.com/utilities/snapzprox/ is so awesome. Any other neat/fun video software?

god i love Hazel!!

yesterday it occurred to me that I could combine Hazel with Dropbox..

http://www.cdfinder.de/en/en/screenshots.html <3 Elvis Telecom for pointing this gem out (here: Maintaining a Digital Music Collection )

http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20120326061614691

simple terminal command to make the dock pop up instantly!

superb, thanks for the link.

don't know where else to post this. The cloud wars are really heating up. First google docs becomes google drive and I suddenly have a google sync'd folder on my computer a-la dropbox. Now dropbox suddenly asks me if I want to upload all the pictures from my camera. Maybe I will let dropbox manage my photos. Probably quickest way to get my instagram and regular photos onto my computer and online for viewing and sharing outside of instagram or facebook. This should really heat up once ios 6 comes out with Facebook integration. I'm content to use a few different sources for different things. Dropbox still wins for easy folder sharing with other people, quick photo galleries etc. But this new google drive is a great way to get my google docs on my desktop and backed up.

hmm very tempted to use it for some document backups... why not

ilx consumer advice thread for THE CLOUD & music & storage riyl icloud google music dropbox netflix spotify

http://howto.cnet.com/8301-11310_39-20082711-285/how-to-use-preview-in-os-x-lion-to-digitally-sign-documents/

have used that SO much lately tbh

http://satelliteeyes.tomtaylor.co.uk/

as one thing well says, i recommend the "watercolor" map (aerial is fun, but you can't see your desktop icons v well if you are in a city)

Anyone using Fever around here? I feel like I'm spending most of my days trying to keep up with my RSS feed so this looks like something for me. But 30 bucks is pretty steep for an RSS reader...

Anybody else using Soulver? I think it's changing my life. Spending a lot of time figuring out and comparing costs for paper while printing, this lets me type things up in english and see totals, and the totals update when I change quantities.

wtf: http://www.acqualia.com/media/images/soulver/introduction/myYear.jpg

lol, women.

$200 a week? i've been lookin' in the wrong places

Never heard of this app before now but I am absolutely sold after playing around with it to figure out some budget probs

Is there a good (non-java) osx download manager? I've used speed download for years but apparently it's broken on 10.8, and it doesn't look like the devs have any further interest in it..

soulver is great

What would be the best/most easily searchable place to store a lot of pdfs: iCloud, Dropbox or Evernote? Wondering if Euler has thoughts on this one.

I take it you don't have so many pdfs that you'd exceed the free allotment of Dropbox? I do alas; might just pony up the cash but I dunno, I recently used GoodReader to upload them all onto my ipad (all 20 gb of them, yikes) but I can't search them that way. right now I have the collection of them (with metadata assiduously added by hand, uggh) copied onto both machines, & then I can search with spotlight. but this suxxx to keep them updated. I use BibDesk as my main receptacle though.

I bought DevonThink Professional a few years ago in order to make this work better but I never really got into it. maybe I should try it again! just...need.......time......

I don't have that many yet; maybe one day! Just want to get started right early on. Good point re searchability in bibliographic software; maybe I should be deciding on that before I do anything else... I'd been thinking of RefWorks (free at my school but apparently not exactly intuitive to use), Zotero and Mendeley; whatever I use has to work across PC and Mac.

mendeley imo

Vote noted, thank you

Papers (http://www.mekentosj.com/papers/) is excellent.

oh man i had no idea it was cross-platform now -- second that, papers is great

Thanks! - will give it a go.

Trial is constantly crashing on me in OS X. Will have to contact them I guess.

It was a corrupt pdf. Anyway, think I may end up using this for storage but it doesn't seem as good as Zotero or Mendeley for reference management?

I liked Sente a lot for that.

Hmm no tabs though... I can see this is not going to be a one-piece-of-software deal...

Anything in the new MacHeist worth bothering with? Strongbad just isn't enough to justify the price tag for me...
http://macheist.com

Notational Velocity syncing with Simplenote is pretty busted :(

I sync via dropbox.

Notational Velocity syncing with Simplenote is pretty busted :(

I haven't had any issues but I use it sparingly so

or do you mean across multiple machines? cuz I've just got iMac + phone + pad

Two Macs, iPhone, iPad. I've had some notes not updating. I've had some notes created in Simplenote that just don't make it to NV, ever. I can edit them in Simplenote on phone/pad/webapp but that's it.

I've had great luck with the alternative fork of NV. Support for tags, etc. The original NV/SN combo was breaking down, so I tried this one out and have had good results

so i found out about sublime text the other day---anyone using it?

yes, love it.

i like it so far, but it's hard to break out of vim thinking

http://grandperspectiv.sourceforge.net

This little tool allows you to visualise what files are on your disk and I've just managed to exorcize 80GB of duplication and guff using it.

windirstat, which is basically the windows version of the same, is also pretty awesome

I shelled out a few bucks for a mac program that is a little prettier and has some more functionality to burrow in. Can't remember what it is at the minute.

disk inventory x does the same thing and is free also